jelly bean
noun1
A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.
- Ronalda had gotten these jelly beans special, from Lenox Square. They were all colors, pink with brown flecks, purple, orange. The flavors had exotic names like Piña Colada and Fig Leaf.2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 104:
- Synonyms
- jelly egg
- Derived terms
- gourmet jelly bean, gourmet jellybean, peachy keen jelly bean, jellybean